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Author:

Roth, Cassia, author.

Title:

A miscarriage of justice : women's reproductive lives and the law in early twentieth-century Brazil / Cassia Roth.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xv, 359 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Maternal health services--Rio de Janeiro--Rio de Janeiro--History--20th century.
Reproductive health--Rio de Janeiro--Rio de Janeiro--History--20th century.
Women--History--Rio de Janeiro--Rio de Janeiro--History--20th century.
Birth control--Rio de Janeiro--Rio de Janeiro--History--20th century.
Birth control--History--Rio de Janeiro--Rio de Janeiro--History--20th century.
Maternal Health Services--history.
Brazil.
Birth control.
Birth control--Law and legislation.
Maternal health services.
Reproductive health.
Women--Health and hygiene.
Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
1900-1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The law of responsibility, the medicine of gender, the science of race -- Constructing motherhood : obstetricians, politicians, and the creation of a reproductive healthcare system -- Birthing life and death : childbirth, stillbirth, and maternal mortality -- A "plague of criminal abortions" : fertility control and the consolidation of medical authority -- Ouvi dizer (heard said) : rumor, sex, and race in the republican capital -- Policing pregnancy : statecraft, poverty, and reproductive health -- Prosecuting honor, defending madness : abortion and infanticide in the courts.

ISBN:

1503611329
9781503611320
1503610470
9781503610477

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1099539191

LCCN:

2019019673

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)